Andrea della Robbia made these glazed terracotta statues of the Annunciate Virgin and the Angel Gabriel to flank the high altar in the Osservanza in Siena. Andrea also created an altarpiece and two roundels of saints for ...

Michele da Firenze specialized in terracotta -- though he is documented also as a stonecarver, only his works in terracotta survive. This under lifesize statue of the Madonna and Child (known as the Madonna delle Lacrime) ...

This lunette, now in the Museo Bandini in Fiesole, was made for the San Michele in Palchetto, in Florence (Santa Elisabetta). The work is glazed terracotta, except for Mary's red dress, which is cold painted, because the ...

The original location of this almost life-size glazed terracotta Madonna is unknown. In the eighteenth century it was donated to the Oratorio di San Tommaso d'Aquino, Florence, where it remains today in relative obscurity, ...

This polychromed stucco relief of the Madonna and Child is found today in the Fondazione Salvatore Romano. On the base of the work are the words spoken by Gabriel to Mary at the Annunciation: "AVE MARIA GRATIA (PLENA)." ...

These two painted wood sculptures, which once formed an Annunciation, have suffered extensive damage. Gabriel has lost the left arm and some fingers on the right, as well as wings, but Mary has suffered more drastically, ...

This pair of sculptures forms an Annunciation. As for other works from this time, the angel has lost his wings, which were presumably originally made of wood or possibly a more ephemeral material, maybe fabric or even ...

These painted wooden sculptures of the Archangel Gabriel and the Annunciate Virgin form an Annunciation. These kind of Annunciation pairs were popular in Siena and the surrounding area in the fourteenth and fifteenth ...

Andrea Pisano's marble relief of the Madonna and Child with maiolica insets was originally located above the north door of the campanile, or bell tower, beside the cathedral in Florence. The striking blue colour of the ...

This sculpture, originally located on the façade of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, was removed in the sixteenth century when plans were underway for a new façade for the cathedral to be created. The sculpture is made ...